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Far-left CNN reports that "about a third of Democrats and Democratic-leaning adults identify as democratic socialists," per the latest polling.
This is a big problem for an increasingly radicalized Democrat Party that continues to move further and further to the left and far out of mainstream thinking on issues like abolishing prisons, abolishing the U.S. Senate, sexualizing and queering little kids, defunding the police, open borders, socialized medicine, annihilating Israel, and outright property confiscation.
The polling shows that 59 percent of these socialists are under age 45 and -- surprise, surprise -- predominantly white (57 percent). They are also less likely to have a college degree or make over $100,000 per year.
What should truly trouble the Democrat Party is how motivated these loons are to vote -- 66 percent are "extremely motivated to vote this year," compared to just 57 percent of non-socialist Democrats.
When these extremists win primaries, especially in purple states, that gives Republicans a real chance to prevail.
A Washington Post-Ipsos poll shows 3 in 4 Democrats support a democratic socialist for president, but less than half of Americans agree. The Democratic Socialists of America has grown, yet Americans remain divided on its meaning. Age and education influence support, with younger, educated individuals more open to democratic socialist candidates.
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Three in 4 Democrats say they would be open to supporting a democratic socialist for president, but less than half of all Americans say they would vote for such a candidate, according to a Washington Post-Ipsos poll.
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Republicans and right-wing influencers are increasingly invoking "communism," often to criticize democratic socialists and the Democratic Party broadly, according to a Washington Post analysis. Americans split on this comparison in the Post-Ipsos poll, with 30 percent saying democratic socialism is similar to communism while 32 percent say it is different and 36 percent saying they are not sure.
Democratic socialism has clearly caught on with many Democrats, fueling questions about how that energy will affect upcoming elections, including the 2028 presidential race. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York), a DSA member, is viewed as a potential presidential candidate.
The Post-Ipsos poll indicates that 55 percent of Americans would not consider voting for a democratic socialist for president, while 39 percent would consider supporting one and 6 percent having no opinion. A majority of self-described independents, 54 percent, would also rule out a democratic socialist candidate.
A much smaller segment of Americans -- 15 percent -- say they like leaders who identify as democratic socialists, compared with 36 percent who dislike them and nearly half saying they neither like nor dislike democratic socialists, the poll shows.
About one-third of Democrats say they like democratic socialist candidates and 10 percent dislike them, but most have neither positive nor negative views of them. Republicans are more negative, with 7 in 10 disliking democratic socialists.
And Russia is meanwhile sinking Ukranian ships delivering grain to foreign buyers. So, fair is fair.
Ukraine struck an Iranian cargo vessel in the Caspian Sea, claiming it was transporting drone and missile components to Russia, marking the first direct military link between the wars in Ukraine and Iran.
Well... it is also reported that Russia is providing Iran with the targeting data it uses to hit our bases with missiles, including the deadly attack on a base in Jordan a couple of weeks ago.
Iran vowed retaliation, accusing Kyiv of violating international law, while Ukraine defended the strike as part of its campaign to disrupt Russia's military supply chains and its partnership with Tehran.
The attack carries broader geopolitical implications, potentially deepening coordination between Russia and Iran while signaling closer strategic alignment between Ukraine and the U.S. amid the expanding regional conflict.
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While details of the July 25 incident are murky, Ukraine's intelligence agency the SBU said its drones hit an oil platform in the Caspian Sea along with a Russian missile boat and "cargo ships that are under international sanctions."
President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday announced that Ukrainian forces had achieved "very good results" in long-range strikes in the Caspian Sea, including against vessels used to transport military cargo linked to Iran.
Ukraine says it has struck several vessels in the Caspian Sea used to transport Russian military cargo to Iran. Reports suggest the cargo ships Port Olya 2 and Begey were hit. Meanwhile, Iranian regime-affiliated channels are threatening ballistic missile strikes on Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/OBFk2SdH3H
As you probably know, Ukraine has been sinking Russian military and sanctioned cargo ships throughout the Black Sea, despite having no navy. They use drones, both flying and water-borne.
They're intensifying the war against the Russian economy and military supply lines, blowing up oil refineries so that oil-rich Russia actually has a fuel crisis. And they're also hitting the factories of Russia's mega-store Wildberries, called Russia's Amazon.
Wildberries itself might go bankrupt from having $4 billion of the stock stored at its warehouses destroyed. The company itself is worth only $9 billion.
Russian banks are limiting customers from withdrawing their money and oligarchs are warning that a bank crisis is coming. A Wildberries bankruptcy might collapse the whole system.
The war is going very badly for Russia. It turns out their vaunted army was third-or-fourth rate. Their equipment just doesn't work well and sometimes doesn't work at all. This is due to Russia's relative poverty and backwardness and probably also due to governmental corruption.
The CIA director estimates that the average life expectancy of a Russian soldier at the Ukraine front is... thirty minutes.
The war is extremely unpopular in Russia. So unpopular that Putin has flinched from using Russia's big advantage, its huge population advantage. So far, Russia is mostly using ethnic minorities from the peripheral states it dominates as well as prisoners and the sick. He pays people an $80,000 signing bonus -- and that's dollars, not rubles -- which is a huge amount of money in Russia.
He does not want to draft ethnic Russians, especially those living in the cities and the middle or intellectual classes.
But with a 30 minute life expectancy, it's getting harder and harder to field men for Putin's "three day Special Military Operation."
Reports say that after the elections, when he feels his power is safe and he won't have to face the public for another couple of years, he will in fact order a big draft to bring 500,000 fresh draftees into the army.
That might be enough to finally break Ukraine... or it might wind up breaking Putin. Russia does have a tendency towards coups, especially during unpopular wars.
Thousands of Africans Flood Past Weak Fencing to Enter Spanish City of Ceuta, Saying "Goodbye Morocco, Hello Spain;" The Socialist, Open Borders Government Refuses to Halt the Mass Illegal Migration
I think this town is on the African side of Gibraltar.
Hundreds of migrants swim to Spain's Ceuta territory from Morocco
Ceuta (Spain) (AFP) -- Hundreds of migrants entered the Spanish north African exclave of Ceuta on Thursday, AFP reporters saw, many of them having swum by sea around the frontier fence.
Migration from Morocco into Spain's two north African territories, Ceuta and Melilla, has long been a politically sensitive issue between the two countries, as thousands cross the border at times.
AFP reporters saw a stream of adults and children, most of them wet, entering the town. Discarded flotation rings and clothes had been left on the shore near where the frontier barrier meets the sea.
The president of Ceuta, Juan Vivas, said Wednesday that 1,500 migrants had come to Ceuta by sea in the past few days.
"We are in a situation of total humanitarian and social emergency," he said in comments broadcast Thursday by Spanish television.
Earlier, he had said that the reception centres were saturated as the number of people entering was more than 200 a day.
"There is no more room for anyone," he said.
Officials could not immediately be reached on Thursday to give more recent figures.
Gathering in Morocco
Migrants walked cheerfully through the streets of Ceuta, thanking the Spanish police and calling out: "Bye bye, Morocco, hello Spain."
Police and Civil Guards in Ceuta appeared to do little to intervene, though some officers attempted to direct the arrivals to the local migrant reception centre.
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On the Moroccan side of the border, an AFP reporter on Thursday afternoon saw hundreds of people including children gathered near the border between Ceuta and the local town of Fnideq, waiting to cross into the Spanish territory.
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Sanchez's right-wing political rivals immediately pressured him on Thursday over the migrant arrivals.
"The government cannot look the other way regarding its duties because we are facing a national security crisis," said opposition Popular Party leader Alberto Nunez Feijoo on X.
Far-right Vox party leader Santiago Abascal on X blamed Sanchez personally for the migrant influx in Ceuta.
Ceuta and Melilla have Europe's only two land borders with Africa.
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Thousands of migrants from Morocco poured over the country's border with Spain and into the country's African enclave of Ceuta after swimming around border barriers to reach the territory.
The latest wave comes after more than 1,500 migrants arrived in Ceuta by sea over the past week, according to regional authorities.
Ceuta's leader is now urging Spain's national government to declare an emergency as the enclave faces another major surge at the European Union's only land border with Africa.
This border breach comes at the same time as President Trump sounds the alarm about the rising number of migrants coming from Africa and other parts of the world who he says are "invading" European countries.
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BREAKING:
🇪🇸 An "absolute migratory emergency" has been declared in Spain's enclave of Ceuta after a massive surge of illegal migrants.
Hundreds of Moroccan and Algerian migrants who flooded the Spanish enclave yesterday breached the border fence today without control.
In recent days, more than 1,500 migrants, including adults and minors, reached Ceuta by sea, swimming from Morocco and overwhelming border security.
Today they completely overwhelmed local forces, leaving reception and juvenile centers fully saturated.
With resources exhausted, Ceuta's government demanded that Spain declare a national emergency and send the military to suppress the crisis.
Spain's far-left PM Pedro Sanchez gave amnesty to 1,000,000+ illegal immigrants, and now hordes of unvetted men are storming across the border from Africa.
It’s the same playbook across the West. These people will destroy our civilization. pic.twitter.com/NcERXfTbPv
The Ceuta invasion is being coordinated by Facebook groups. @finkd
The flagship group description: "Ceuta by every route #hraga_ceuta -- Migration is an idea, and the idea does not die."
There are countless posts soliciting people to go with others. This is in clear violation of the Facebook ToS that prohibits content "offers to provide or facilitate human smuggling" or content that asks for "asks for human smuggling services."
WNBA Team Co-Owner Fined, Suspended for Harassing Teen Fans over Opposition to Men in Women's Sports
The Seattle Storm apologized after the team's co-owner Celeste Keaton harassed two teenage fans during a home game over their opposition to trans-identifying males participating in women's sports.
Keaton was fined by the WNBA and suspended from the Storm's next five home games for berating two teenage girls at Tuesday's game against the Indiana Fever. The girls were wearing "XX XY Athletics" shirts and holding signs expressing support for Sophie Cunningham, a Fever guard who has spoken out in support of fairness in women's and girls' sports.
"We apologize that this happened," the Seattle Storm said in a statement. "Everyone who attends a Storm game deserves to feel welcome, and we remain committed to creating an inclusive environment where every fan is treated with respect."
The girls' signs read, "Thank you, Sophie #8, for speaking up for girls!"
"Bravo to those girls for standing up for what they believe," Cunningham posted on X. "You'll be hearing from me soon."
In an interview after the game, the teenage girls told podcaster Brandi Kruse that Keaton swore at them until one of them broke down in tears.
"This older lady comes up to us and she asks, 'What are you guys doing?'" one of the girls told Kruse. "And she's like, 'Oh I hope Jesus can forgive you for what sin you've done.'" Then the woman called the girls "F***ing insane" and pointed to her head. One of the girls started sobbing.
"I've never been yelled at like that. I've had people hate on me on the internet, but it doesn't really affect me as much," she said. "That just took me by surprise because I thought she was going to be nice, and she just started screaming at us and cussing at us."
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When the girls later learned that the woman who swore at them was a co-owner of the Storm, they were shocked and disappointed. They said the rest of the game was difficult to sit through.
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When the group entered the stadium, they were heckled by fans who continued to boo Cunningham each time she touched the ball. Fans would also boo the girls when they took pictures before the game as well as between quarters.
That's what a Seattle Storm fan was heard yelling at teenage Sophie Cunningham fans.
The WNBA team's co-owner is also alleged to have berated the girls wearing XX-XY Athletics shirts and carrying handmade signs thanking Cunningham for her recent… pic.twitter.com/vQ1ekNJXyL
Seattle Storm co-owner and players harassed Sophie Cunningham fans who came to support her following her comments about keeping males out of girl’s sports pic.twitter.com/2aEZj5JSFK
The only consolation is that the sympathy people used to have for these monsters for being the "underdog" and "oppressed" is disappearing and people are seeing them simply as the monsters they are, deserving of whatever ill-fortune karma and their own hateful decisions bring on them.
Here's what I mean:
Seattle Storm fan SPIT in a Fever fan’s face after the Fever won.
I truly believe there is a safe space and love for EVERYBODY. Biological girls, biological boys, trans women, and trans men. Everyone is welcome at my table! You can disagree and still be kind.
Bravo to those girls for standing up for what they believe. You’ll be hearing from… https://t.co/gIVWhEHi3Q
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., ordered one of Dr. Anthony Fauci's attorneys removed from a Senate hearing Wednesday after the former White House chief medical adviser repeatedly invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination during questioning about the COVID-19 pandemic.
The confrontation unfolded before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, where the Kentucky Republican had subpoenaed Fauci to testify about the origins of the coronavirus and the federal government's response to the pandemic, reports The Hill.
Before questioning began, Fauci criticized Paul, accusing the committee chairman of being intent on securing his prosecution.
"The only conclusion I can reach is that the sole reason he is calling me before this committee is to get me to say something, anything that could vindicate his repeated public pledges that I end up in his words 'behind bars,'" Fauci said.
When Paul began questioning him, Fauci repeatedly declined to answer, invoking his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. He gave the same response to questions from Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., and Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla.
Meanwhile, the hearing briefly descended into a procedural dispute when one of Fauci's attorneys, David Schertler, repeatedly attempted to address the committee without being recognized by the chairman.
Paul said Schertler had been instructed not to sit at the witness table with Fauci and was not authorized to participate in the hearing, reports The New York Post.
"You will respect these proceedings. You were told not to sit at the table. You insist on sitting at the table, and we told you you would not be recognized. You are not invited here for testimony, sir. You are being disruptive," Paul told Schertler.
"Would you behave this way in a courtroom? No, because the judge would put you in jail. I can't do that today. But I can have you escorted from the premises," added Paul.
After Schertler continued trying to speak, Paul added, "There's a row behind you, sir. That's where you were told to sit … and now you're disrupting the proceedings."
"This is the way Anthony Fauci wants to be remembered: for a lawyer not listening to the rules," Paul continued. "That's the way you want to be remembered, and that's what you're going to do."
Paul then directed security to escort Schertler from the hearing room, saying, "Let the record state that Dr. Fauci will still have the advice of the other half a dozen attorneys that he brought along today."
I do not have enough disgust for the sanctimonious and megalomaniac "Doctor" Fauci and his shyster mouth piece Schertler.
I'll say this for Hitler. He was open and honest compared to Anthony Fauci. And that is my rant for the day.
So Anthony the Mini-Mengele Fauci pleaded the Fifth more than Joe Valachi. Well he certainly has more victims than Valachi and the entire mafia in its bloody history combined. As commenter Paul G. wrote over at CJN yesterday:
As I currently watch the Dr. Fauci’stein hearings, I cannot help but think that this could be one of the largest crimes of humanity in history.
I know that’s a long, far out analysis, but the breadth of outright lying by Dr. Fauci’stein, his funding of gain of function research outside the country, and then the cover up to shut down the world priming the U.S. CDC and NIH to be put under U.N. WHO control, thus surpassing our own Constitution.
Fauci’stein’s personality, mental make-up, ability to outright lie to the world, let alone the American people and to become some kind of Hero of Science deliberately resulting in the death of millions. The murderer’s at the Nuremberg Trials I feel were more truthful than Dr. Fauci’stein.
I don’t know where this leaves us, but a known mass killer will surely walk free and receive accolades and monetary awards for being one the Globalist’s flying monkey’s.
What a cowardly and shameful final chapter for Dr. Anthony Fauci, who pleaded the Fifth 111 times in the Senate Wednesday even though he has a pre-emptive presidential pardon that gives him immunity from prosecution.
In the history of Congress, only a couple of mob bosses have invoked the privilege more.
“On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer, based upon my rights, under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution,”
the Machiavellian career bureaucrat said over and over in the nearly three-hour hearing before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
But Fauci’s silence rendered him a villain more powerfully than his usual sly deceptions.
Shameful, too, were the Democrats and their media handmaidens who continue to run cover for Fauci, singing his praises, and denying their flock the truth about a man who filled his pandemic diary with self-praise and celebrity worship while remaining callously aloof from the human suffering he had caused. . . What a cowardly and shameful final chapter for Dr. Anthony Fauci, who pleaded the Fifth 111 times in the Senate Wednesday even though he has a pre-emptive presidential pardon that gives him immunity from prosecution.
If there were any true justice in this world, his final chapter would end with him strapped into a gurney in the death house of a federal prison, and a doctor declaring him dead after being given a lethal injection.
Alas, this is America 2026 and as we all know too well, real justice from a judicial system that has been thoroughly corrupted as a weapon of political repression against any opponent of Leftism/Socialism/Globalism and the Democrat agenda is nigh impossible to get. What the future holds in that regard, whether we see a reversal of that in our lifetimes or at least the lifetime of those who have much of their lives in front of them is to be seen.
We know the tired Iranian strategy by now. We might call it “theocratic rope-a-dope.” For the theocrats and their terrorist proxies, survival means outlasting Trump, waiting for the next cash-laden Democrat administration, and using “moderates” to play good cop while haggling away months. The mullahs and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps feign indifference even as their half-century, half-trillion-dollar investments in what is now essentially a vaporized military-industrial-nuclear complex continue to be destroyed.
The war has finally revealed the full extent of Iran’s vast conventional arsenal, nuclear program, and missile and drone industry.
The ship that Ukraine struck in the Caspian Sea on Saturday [July 25] contained components for drones and missiles on their way to Iran, Ukrainian Ambassador to Israel Yevgen Korniychuk said in an interview with N12 on Sunday.
Iran claimed the ship was carrying civilian goods when it was attacked by Ukraine and accused Ukraine of seeking to expand the Russia-Ukraine war….
This stinks because yes for sure the Russians are in bed with the Iranians but also because it provides a mighty convenient excuse for those who have President Trump's ear to give military aid and assistance to Ukraine , which thankfully he has been loathe to do so far.
The United States and Israel are considering some form of a land blockade to crank up the economic pressure on Iran as the war against the Islamic Republic enters its sixth month, the Washington Free Beacon can report. The land blockade would complement the sea blockade that's been in effect for some time.
"What if you just block the land? Suppose Iran can't bring anything in, cannot take anything out," a senior Israeli official told the Free Beacon—raising one possibility the two countries have been discussing.
“This rule will shorten the total time that it takes asylum officers and Immigration Judges to adjudicate asylum applications,” a news release from USCIS states. “Among other reasons, USCIS is making this change to reduce the asylum backlog.” DHS to Fast-Track Asylum Decisions, Cutting Massive Backlog Left by Biden
The fact that Temporary Protected Status (TPS) has lasted for decades in some cases illustrates how much the system is abused, given that “temporary” is literally in the name. Democrats just like to use TPS to bring in hordes of foreigners who will provide cheap labor and change demographics while never actually obtaining U.S. citizenship. It’s a scam that burdens Americans, costing taxpayer money and jobs, not to mention the fact that some of these TPS holders turn out to be criminals. Connecticut Gov. Edward Lamont (D) is sabotaging Americans to help TPS holders. Connecticut Governor Allocates Millions in Taxpayer Cash for TPS Aliens (What the Duke said he'd do to Ned! - jjs)
THE IRAN CONFLICT, MOU/"PEACE DEAL" (aftermath??)
Victor Davis Hanson: Iran’s rulers are not playing to win the war today—they are playing to survive long enough to fight another one tomorrow. The Iran War at the Crossroads
Israel marks his clearest breaking point; Fetterman has warned that he would leave the Democratic Party if it formally became anti-Israel. He has no interest in becoming a Republican, leaving independence as the likely route. Fetterman Votes With Democrats, Then Defies Them When Courage Counts (Yes on this but courage always counts, on every issue!!! - jjs)
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
As Democrats struggle to articulate what they stand for, new polling finds that work, responsibility, and public order remain a winning agenda. Bill Clinton Was Right About Welfare
“It’s considered one of the worst airports anywhere in the world. We’re going to make it maybe the best with some hard work,” Trump said at the White House event. “We’re gonna make this something special.” Trump Unveils $22 Billion Plan to Fix Dulles Airport’s Notorious Design Flaws (Meh, Duck Fulles - jjs)
The bill has sparked backlash with critics warning it could set a precedent for government hiring based on group identity rather than merit. The bill is likely to create tension between state and federal government, especially since the Trump administration has pushed to end DEI across the United States. Back in February, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit gave the administration the go-ahead to end DEI programs within federal contracting. Dem Lawmakers Launch DEI Program Prioritizing Muslims for State Employment.
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY, PLUS VARIOUS & SUNDRY GODLESS HEATHENS
“Absent this Court’s intervention, the sitting President is facing nearly a hundred million dollars of personal liability for conduct that was well within the scope of his federal office. That alone deserves this Court’s attention,” the DOJ wrote in its filing to the Supreme Court. Trump Department of Justice Appeals E. Jean Carroll Lawsuit to the Supreme Court
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
In many of these cases, the victim is publicly hanged from a construction crane, an especially slow and painful execution method." And that doesn't even mention the extrajudicial killings of pro-democracy protesters. President Trump has said between 30,000 and 52,000 of them were murdered this year by the Iranian regime, many shot in the forehead. ‘Public Executions Are Extremely Rare’ in Iran, the New York Times Claims, Inaccurately (yes, they're mostly well-done - jjs)
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Nine voting members of the Fed’s monetary policy unit, the Federal Open Market Committee, voted to keep rates unchanged. Three regional presidents dissented, preferring to increase the benchmark rate by one quarter of a percentage point. John Williams, the New York Fed president, and Anna Paulson of the Philadelphia Fed, voted with the majority, as did all seven Fed governors. A Divided Fed Holds Interest Rates Steady
The renewed investment gives the GOP a formidable new asset heading into November. GOP super PACs and committees already hold more than a $300 million cash advantage over their Democrat counterparts, a figure that does not include the $400 million sitting in Trump’s MAGA Inc. super PAC. Musk Revives Super PAC, Pledges Major Push to Boost GOP Turnout in Midterms
The allegations raise questions about Talarico’s adherence to electoral law and his decision to seek re-election via the 50th House District back in 2022. This adds to a series of scandals and controversial reports that have rocked Talarico’s campaign. Given the tight race between Talarico and State Attorney General Paxton, this revelation could influence undecided voters. Ken Paxton Alleges James Talarico Committed Election Fraud.
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
Los Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl voted to order the closure of all restaurants in the county, then left that very meeting and went to dinner at Il Forno in Santa Monica. There Were Thousands Of Faucis
“The only conclusion I can reach is that the sole reason he [Rand Paul] is calling me before this committee is to get me to say something that could vindicate his repeated public pledges that I end up, in his words, ‘behind bars.'” Fauci Invokes 5th Amendment, Declines to Testify in Senate Hearing
“You became a narcissist and a megalomaniac and a liar, and you’ve lied to the American people, and you’ve lied to this body, and you’ve disgraced your profession by doing it.” Hawley Blasts Fauci: ‘You Got Rich While People Were Dying’
Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, received a pardon courtesy of Joe Biden's autopen. But even should Republicans fail to prove the illegitimacy of that pardon, it would not protect him from charges at the state level. Florida Announces Investigation Into Fauci Since His Pardon Isn't for State Charges
Boy George released a new song on July 29, “We Will Dance Again,” or Od Nirkod in Hebrew, about the Nova Music Festival — one of the scenes of Hamas’ massacre of Jews on Oct. 7, 2023. It opens with lyrics so refreshingly direct in their moral clarity — “You say genocide, I say war / When you’re attacked, that’s what the army’s for / Does it get ugly? You bet it does / When I know you wanna kill every last one of us” Boy George Chooses Truth Over the Anti-Israel Mob
A film memorializes the bloody civil resistance to the French Revolution. ‘Victory or Death’
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Well, it didn't, and wouldn't have at all if it hadn't previously blocked the acquisition of US company iRobot by US company Amazon leaving the market to Chinese competitors. And they're only being blocked over well-founded fears of being used for surveillance just like every other thing in our lives these days with more functional purpose than a Chia Pet.
If you like your Roomba you can keep your Roomba, and existing models of Roomba can continue to be imported, but new models of Roomba - and of any other imported robot - will need to be certified.
Why would the US government consider robots to be a security ris-
U.S. company Satyress is developing threehalves, a centaur-style robot designed for dangerous environments such as wildfires, rubble searches, toxic areas and confined spaces. The system combines a humanoid upper body with a quadruped mobility platform. #USA#Robotics#UGV#AIpic.twitter.com/ViPprQ1lrZ
Only problem is that it runs an in-house Kirin XE90 Arm CPU, which has decent multi-threaded performance thanks to its 10 dual-thread cores, but pretty lousy single-threaded performance. Expect performance like a 2017-era laptop in that regard.
Speaking of which, I just realised that the new Minisforum NAB9S has a 13900HK CPU rather than a 13900HX. So while it is a current model that takes DDR4 SODIMMs (of which I have an abundance) and is a fair bit faster than my existing hardware that uses that memory, it is also a fair bit slower than the full HX model.
It's also relatively inexpensive because it's available as a barebones model, and has a 2.5" bay for a SATA SSD if I should happen to find where mine have gone.
Gemma 26B requires 52GB of VRAM to run as it ships with 16-bit values. The process squimshes it down to 4-bit quantisation and then caches the core (using about 2GB of RAM in total) and streams the rest from SSD.
Which is great because while you can certainly run Gemma 26B-A4B (4-bit quantised) on a 16GB graphics card without hacks, this sort of trick would allow you to run some 200B parameter models on the same hardware - the scale where AI models stop being stupid and useless.
Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety. The bar is open and (mostly) re-stocked. No Dr. Pepper. Sorry. But each patron gets a free restroom token as compensation.
Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of random overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and join the fun. Good will offerings of amusing puns are encouraged. Pants are optional. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. If you're a troll, go away.
This is a Tucker, Candace, Megyn, and Bill Kristol free zone. Everyone probably needs a cleanse from Fifth Amendment Fauci, so let's stipulate that he is an evil, narcissistic fraud and avoid letting his existence burn any more of our brain cells.
Lots of ugly out there. Hold fast to what is right and true. May the Horde find common cause, comfort, and refuge from the maelstrom in the AoS corner of the interweb. Prayers for all among the Horde. Your admission to the ONT is authorized. Welcome.
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Puppies!
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Impressive skill at an impressive building:
Probably apocryphal, but there is story that goes something like this:
Young German tour guide at the Cologne cathedral: "It was a miracle that the cathedral stood through the bombing of the city during World War II!"
Seasoned American voice from the back of the group: "Ahem. We left it standing because it was a visible way point into Germany and back home for our bombers. It was not a miracle."
If you visit, say hello the Three Wise Men. They are reportedly resting at room temperature in a gold box behind the altar.
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Anyone ever get a traffic ticket in McBee, South Carolina? Not naive to think this kind of thing doesn't happen, but it is egregious in any time and place. Shows how badly things can go wrong when some people get access to power. Predators that abuse public positions of power deserve tar and feathers. At least roadside bandits don't pretend to uphold the public trust.
Multiple current and former members of the McBee Police Department turned themselves in to agents with the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) on Monday morning in Chesterfield County.
One person who did not surrender Monday was former Officer Jerriell Wright. Wright contacted Queen City News Chief Investigative Reporter Jody Barr in December 2024, just three months after he was shot at 62 times in an ambush following a Sept. 19, 2024, traffic stop in town.
Wright provided months of text messages between himself, former Lt. Greg Block, and McBee Mayor Glenn Odom - messages that Wright said provided evidence that the mayor and former McBee Police Chief Mike Irvin implemented a 10 tickets per shift quota in the one-stoplight town.
Wright's messages also showed the mayor was critical of Block's lack of ticket production. To satisfy the mayor, Wright said McBee Town Councilman Robbie Liles and current MPD Chief Timmy Knight ordered him to help Block by taking time out of his shift to write tickets using Block's login credentials to access the state's computerized electronic ticketing system.
Wright had text messages to underpin a lot of what he alleged happened. His months of text chains with the mayor showed Glenn Odom's lust for traffic tickets and the $440 fine variety, according to Wright. The mayor, he said, was never satisfied, no matter how high his daily ticket totals climbed.
"Basically, he was saying I ran a red light, which I never passed through the red light. He said I was speeding... I never passed through the intersection," Jackson told me in a March 2026 interview at his jobsite in Longs, S.C. I showed Jackson the same photographs I showed every other person we contacted.
"I was explaining to him I never passed to the light. And he said, I'm not going to argue with you. I can impound your vehicle and take you into custody and stuff. So, I just let it be and kind of went on and took the tickets and paid the tickets," Jackson said.
Let's change the tone to something more upbeat. Where Eagles Dare is a great drumming songs. Who better to explain how it works than Nicko McBrain?
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ONT Movie Night
You can have the Odyssey movie (or most anything else that Hollywood makes). I'll take Airplane.
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Niche YouTube Channel of the Week
Tonight's feature is a YouTube channel called Uncanny Expeditions. Anders primarily devotes his channel to going as far as legally possible on public land to see activity in an around Area 51 and 52. He has traveled to locations around the Mojave and New Mexico as well. His journeys often attempt to debunk or resolve rumor and myth rather than amplify them.
He is not afraid to drive, hike and camp well off the beaten path. He researches the history of specific facilities to explain when they were built, how they developed and what they were used for. His approach is one of curiosity and tangible evidence. For example, rather than just reading about a crash location in a remote location, he travels to see what remains after the clean-up.
His videos often include glimpses of helicopters, fighter jets, Janet flights and even F-117 flights.
Yes, the "authorities" are very aware he exists.
His channel has over 206k subscribers and some of his videos attract over a million views. Some of the footage isn't dramatic but documents activity or lack of activity. It also illustrates just how vast and rugged the landscape is.
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The Pittsburgh police scanner is back! Thank you people of Pittsburgh and thank you Pittsburgh scanner!
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Ella Langley for the big ONT finish:
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Correspondence can be sent to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com where it will be promptly be ignored on grounds of Fifth Amendment privilege. Are you lurking ????
The post displays a heartwarming video of an orangutan named Suryia playfully interacting with, carrying, and bottle-feeding tiger cubs at Myrtle Beach Safari in South Carolina.
Filmed in 2015, the clip shows the male orangutan mimicking human caretakers after they bottle-fed rejected cubs, leading to daily supervised play and bonding sessions.
Replies question if the footage is AI-generated, but it is authentic and predates current AI video tech, having amassed tens of millions of views over the past decade.
The Department of Education is investigating the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) over the potential use of transgender dolls in schools. The investigation was launched Wednesday in response to complaints about "MyGender Dolls," a product designed to encourage transgenderism through the use of toy dolls.
Earlier this week, controversy erupted after multiple outlets reported that transgender dolls with interchangeable genitalia would be debuting in Minnesota classrooms this fall, funded by taxpayer dollars. The dolls reportedly originated as a University of Minnesota project through its medical school, which receives $15 million in state funding. An undisclosed amount is also dispersed to its Institute for Sexual and Gender Health, which has a total budget of $1.4 million. The dolls became a marketable product, called MyGender Dolls, marketed to "professionals who support trans and gender diverse children in clinical and educational settings."
The Department of Education is investigating to ensure the MDE is in compliance with the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA), which restricts federal funding for schools that force students to engage in activities forcing them "to submit to a survey, analysis, or evaluation" on their "sex behavior or attitudes." The amendment is targeted at preventing schools from hiding name and pronoun changes from parents, as well as transition plans. A complaint filed by parents through Defending Education prompted the federal investigation by highlighting potential violations of multiple federal policies.
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[Secretary of Education Linda] McMahon continued, saying, "No four-year-old should be exposed to such material -- especially without a parent's knowledge or consent. ED will enforce the law to its fullest extent, putting parents and families firmly in the driver's seat of their child's education."
Emily Buss, the Communications Director for Minnesota's Department of Education, disputes the claim about the dolls being used in schools, calling it "patently false." "The paper-cutout dolls will not be implemented in Minnesota K-12 public schools. They are intended for use by licensed professionals and clinicians. This is a University of Minnesota-led initiative, and the Minnesota Department of Education is not involved," she said.
That's a lie. Adult "clinicians" do not play with paper dolls in order to understand sex change operations. The paper dolls are designed to be used to show to children.
And the MyGender Dolls website admits this:
The MyGender Dolls website explicitly states that the dolls are a "first-of-their-kind therapeutic play approach designed for gender diverse children ages 4--10."
But how could you keep him out of a women's locker room? As you can see from the photos that run with that story, he looks exactly like a woman. It's uncanny!
The only way to check his gender would be to forcibly reach down his pants, AOC tells me. You can't tell from his masculine ugly face nor from his five o'clock shadown nor from from his male-pattern obesity. No only invasive "genital checks" could possibly reveal his actual sex.
A transitioning son accused of killing his mother inside a Laguna Beach home bludgeoned her to death with a hammer -- with the alleged murderer's grandmother discovering the bloody aftermath, authorities said.
Police responded to the rental home of Safford James Wolfson, 36, around 11 a.m. on July 20 after Wolfson's grandma entered the residence and found blood-spattered floors and smashed furniture, prosecutors revealed.
Investigators said Wolfson's grandmother first found Wolfson lying on the floor covered in blood before discovering the body of Angela Caprioli, 61, in a bedroom with severe blunt-force injuries to her head and face.
Wolfson's grandmother called 911, with cops and medics arriving and taking Wolfson to the hospital with self-inflicted injuries to his neck.
Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said Wolfson faces murder charges as well as a felony enhancement for using a deadly weapon.
"It is heartbreaking to think that someone could so violently end the life of the very person who gave them life," Spitzer said.
Wolfson is currently being held in lieu of $1 million bail. His arraignment is scheduled for Oct. 1 in Orange County.
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Neighbor Dustin Pettit told The California Post that he witnessed Wolfson and Caprioli involved in a tense argument at the home before the alleged killing.
"I saw her outside talking with him and it seemed like a pretty hostile conversation," he said.
"She turned around and went inside and slammed the door, like she was fed up with whatever was going on. I was like, 'What the hell is going on here?'"
I don't understand -- I was insistently informed that "gender affirming care" cured the myriad mental illnesses that "trans" people have. And yet... they seem to get worse, not better.
It's a real mystery no one can solve because No One Is Allowed to Solve It.
Parricide--the killing of one's parents--is a recurring theme I found in my years of reporting on trans violence.
Perhaps nowhere is this more evident than in the Zizian trans death cult, where it was elevated to a religious-like tenet. Members believed it was righteous--even a duty--to take revenge against "transphobic" parents.
Pre-order my true-crime investigation here: https://hachettebookgroup.com/titles/andy-ng
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Last year, Collin "Mia" Bailey was convicted of m--rdering his parents in Utah. He is one of many, many trans people who have killed their parents.
Bailey blamed his mother for allegedly interfering with his planned trans surgery. He believed she contacted the hospital to warn staff that he had serious issues requiring attention. As revenge, he decided to kill his entire family--even though he admitted his father had supported him.
After fatally shooting his mother and father, Bailey also fired into his brother's bedroom but narrowly missed.
On social media, trans activists praised Bailey and called for his release. "Free Mia," they wrote.
For trans radicals, parricide is not merely excused--it is socially validated. They encourage one another to stockpile firearms, "bash back," and kill "transphobes."
Their ideology casts biological family as an obstacle to be replaced with a new "family" of fellow "dolls." http://ngocomment.com
Parricide—the killing of one’s parents—is a recurring theme I found in my years of reporting on trans violence.
Perhaps nowhere is this more evident than in the Zizian trans death cult, where it was elevated to a religious-like tenet. Members believed it was righteous—even a… pic.twitter.com/HFAa5OuV6E
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) July 28, 2026
I'm telling you, this "gender-affirming medicine" is something else. It's a Doctor Strange reality-warping spell in a pill.
Update: Trans person Safford Wolfson is accused of bludgeoning his mother to death with a hammer at a home in Laguna Beach, Calif. Wolfson’s grandmother found blood splattered all over the residence.
They will drive private enterprise stores out of business. Which is the whole point. Socialism and communism destroy functioning systems so that they can present themselves as the solution to all of the problems they themselves have caused.
An immigrant-led business group is gearing up to sue New York City over Mayor Zohran Mamdani's controversial plan to open five taxpayer-funded supermarkets -- claiming the $70 million project will create unfair competition for nearby stores, The Post has learned.
As the far-left mayor announced new details of his plan this week -- including a 30% discount on basic items like produce, meat, milk, cheese and bread -- the Multicultural Business Coalition's board voted to file a lawsuit in the coming weeks to block the pricey initiative, the group's chairman Frank Garcia told The Post.
"The mayor doesn't seem to want to sit down with us," Garcia said, adding that Mamdani "won't be able to bully these lawyers we are going to bring in."
The mayor's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
MBC -- formed earlier this year to create a unified front against Mamdani's grocery policy -- includes 50 chambers of commerce representing Asian, African, Caribbean, Hispanic, Middle Eastern and Jewish-owned businesses in New York.
The nonprofit MBC plans to raise $1 million to fight some of the mayor's initiatives, Garcia said, adding that the suit "should be a non-partisan initiative." The group plans to send a letter in the coming days notifying Mamdani's office of its plans to take legal action.
The funds will go toward the lawsuit and efforts to raise awareness about the plight of its mom-and-pop shop members, many of whom struggle to secure capital, fend off shoplifters and keep up with rising costs including rent and taxes.
Meanwhile, longtime NYC residents are complaining that the communist terrorist has put them on a list of people whose properties will be taxed at sky-high rates -- unless they can prove to the city's socialist satisfaction that they live in their homes.
New Yorkers were seething Tuesday after Mayor Zohran Mamdani's administration alerted them they'd be on the hook for the state's new pied-a-terre tax -- which was explicitly sold as a levy targeting wealthy owners of luxury second homes.
Longtime residents -- some who have called the Big Apple home for decades and own a single abode in the city -- told The Post they were shocked to get hit with five-figure tax bills they believe were mistakenly mailed out, and are now being forced to navigate a bureaucratic labyrinth to prove it.
"Whoever's behind this, who I can only assume is the mayor, didn't take the 30 seconds to research," said Karen Young, president and founder of New York and Paris-based beauty marketing company The Young Group, who has lived in New York since 1972.
Why would you assume this gayboy Destroyer of Civilization wasn't behind it?
You voted for him, didn't you, Dummy?
She was stunned when she received a letter from the city Department of Finance asking for $43,000 in pied-a-terre tax on her West 95th Street brownstone, which she's lived in with her husband for 30 years.
"Is this a witch hunt?" she asked, exasperated.
Mamdani not only gloats about 'taxing the rich,' he lies as well
"I just sort of line up all of these things and think 'why are you picking on us?'" Young said.
"As a faithful New Yorker since 1972, I find it not only insulting but painful," she fumed, "Is anybody paying any attention, or any thinking, or two minutes of research. Just look me up!"
Young said she went to the DOF's website to attempt to prove her permanent residency -- but quickly hit a brick wall.
"It's a cumbersome process to prove that I'm a primary resident, which just seems absurd. My jury summons come here, I pay my taxes from here, my utilities," she said.
Despite the department telling her the process to appeal or challenge the bill was as easy as uploading a driver's license, Young said she was forced to pay her estate lawyer to get the proper documentation after spending three fruitless hours on the website trying to do it herself.
"Apparently they haven't checked their own website. And I'm tech-savvy!" she insisted.
Yes, the communists say that you can avoid having your property confiscated through ruinous taxation if you jump through their bureaucratic hurdles -- but they're the ones who decide how onerous those hurdles will be, and they profit from citizens failing to run their commie gauntlet.
So, enjoy.
There must be NO BAILOUTS for New York City or Seattle or Boston or any of the other communist cities after they destroy themselves. The stupid and corrupt will have no other teacher than their self-inflicted misery. They must be made to learn.
First lady Melania Trump and son Barron are the latest targets of Iran's sick anti-US propaganda.
A new video out of Iran is encouraging supporters of the Islamic regime to assassinate President Trump's wife.
Entitled "How to Kill Melania Trump," the video shows images of the first lady in the motorcade and in some locations around New York City, even naming some of the designer stores that she shops.
The shopping excursions could be "suitable for operations by global freedom fighters," the video noted. It also suggested using a nerve agent to poison any clothes the first lady might purchase.
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At the end of the video, Barron Trump, 20, is also threatened.
"This is just the beginning. Barron Trump, wait for us."
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The president's family has been repeatedly targeted since the war with Iran began.
Last week, billboards appeared around Tehran demanding the death of President Trump and his relatives, including Melania and all his children: Don Jr, Ivanka, Eric, Tiffany and Barron.
"Blood for blood," it read.
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[President Trump] told The Post that he "left instructions" should Iran succeed in their plots to assassinate him -- and there'll be hell to pay.
"I've been on their list for a long time. That's what we're dealing with," he said. "... The only thing is, I've left instructions -- if anything happens, to just literally bomb them at levels that they've never seen before."
Iran just launched five missiles at US bases. The missiles were all intercepted, but Trump vows vengeance.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday warned that the U.S. is going to "beat the f*cking sh*t" out of Iran following its attack on U.S. forces in Jordan.
U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) confirmed on Tuesday that Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces attempted to conduct a "surprise attack on U.S. forces based in the Middle East."
"All Iranian missiles were successfully intercepted. U.S. forces remain vigilant and at a high state of readiness," CENTCOM said.
In response to that, President Donald Trump told Fox News, "We're going to beat the f*cking sh*t out of them."
Trump added that Iran is "going to get a beating."
Trump explained why he hasn't yet bombed Iran's bridges and power plants. It's simple: He's thinking about the day after the collapse of the regime. The freed people of Iran will desperately need to start making money, and that will be difficult with all of the bridges and power plants destroyed. Trump explains that bridges can take up to ten years to build and power plants are the most expensive piece of infrastructure to rebuild.
I watched a video last week explaining that's why Trump has not bombed Kharg Island down to ground, too. It turns out that despite Iran's long coast on the Strait, they have only one deep water port, and that's Kharg Island. The rest of the coastal waters are shallow and piled with silt which prevents ocean-going tankers from pulling up to take on oil.
This is also why you only hear of plans to use Marines to seize Kharg Island, as opposed to dropping massive ordnance penetrators on it and just destroying the port entirely.
So again, he's contemplating the post-war economy of Iran and deciding not to bomb key infrastructure that the Iranians will desperately need.
That all makes sense. Here's what doesn't: Repeatedly threatening to bomb things you've already decided not to bomb.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: "Already, it'll take them many years to ever rebuild, and if I go back and finish up the job as some people would like with the bridges... it takes them ten years to build a bridge... I think we have a very strong position right now. They know I'm going to do… pic.twitter.com/TFOt3NbQRZ
U.S. Central Command and the Saudi Arabian Armed Forces conducted precision strikes in Iraq, July 28, against Iran-aligned terrorists that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) directed to attack U.S. forces and Saudi energy infrastructure.
U.S. and Saudi fighter aircraft struck multiple terrorist logistics and weapons sites across eastern Iraq in a strong response to over 30 IRGC-directed aerial drone attacks in the last 72 hours.
The unwarranted attacks against U.S. forces were not successful.
Leftists are openly grieving Iran's inability to fund their favorite murderous, psychopathic Muslim terrorist forces.
EXCLUSIVE: Several DSA-aligned politicians attended a stream where speakers compared America to Nazism and discussed protecting Iran’s ability to fund Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis.
“If Iran is off the table, Hezbollah can’t be funded, Hamas can’t be funded, the Houthis can’t… pic.twitter.com/M9UvlG6AmT
MS NOW "National Security Reporter" Took a Luxury All-Expenses Paid Junket Paid for by Communist China's Intelligence Services, Then Wrote Articles Trashing Trump for Criticzing China
An MS Now reporter who criticized President Trump's speech about Chinese influence previously traveled to the country with the help of a Chinese Communist Party-linked organization and failed to tell readers he was the guest of a CCP-linked outfit.
David Rohde, MS NOW's senior national security reporter, who traveled to China when he was with Reuters, was listed as one of many mainstream journalists who traveled to China as part of Chinese influence operations, as revealed by journalist Natalie Winters, who co-hosts the War Room podcast and video stream with Steve Bannon.
Rohde himself announced he was taking the trip back in 2011 in a column titled, "Will 'Made in America' sell in China?" In the column, which no longer bears his name but did in a previous archived version visited by Just the News on Tuesday, Rohde says that he and other journalists "are visiting China this week on a trip organized by the China-United States Exchange Foundation, a non-profit group run by businessmen with close ties to the Chinese government."
Paid for a viewpoint?
Since that visit, Rohde has written numerous columns favorable to China, including one shortly after Trump's speech claiming the president was trying to "undermine trust in the midterm elections by claiming that China had a role in his losing the presidency in 2020."
During Trump's speech earlier this month, the president alleged that China attempted to allegedly influence American public opinion by offering money to journalists to write negative stories about him.
"The Chinese government sought to identify US journalists who had reported negatively on the US president and pay them large sums of money to write more negative articles about him," Trump said during his speech.
While Just the News could not find evidence of such a clear monetary exchange, journalists like Rohde, who were hosted in China, did have their trip organized and paid for by the China-United States Exchange Foundation (CUSEF), whose founder, Tung Chee-hwa, is a Hong Kong businessman who served as vice chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) from 2005 to 2023.
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Most news organizations focused on reporters' ethics eschew hiding the fact that the reporter's trip was paid for by the subject he or she is covering. For example, the Society of Professional Journalists' Code of Conduct explicitly states that journalists should "Refuse gifts, favors, fees, free travel and special treatment, and avoid political and other outside activities that may compromise integrity or impartiality, or may damage credibility."
Another commentator on journalistic ethics, Zan Romanoff, put it more bluntly: "In theory, journalistic ethics are simple: writers shouldn't pay for access to subjects or sources, or be paid by those subjects and sources to write about them; outlays should be provided by the publication, and limited to the bare-bone requirements of reporting, such as food."
CUSEF is registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), a law designed to make foreign influence transparent. The CPPCC is part of China's "United Front" work, a Soviet-era strategy used to influence Chinese communities overseas, foreign governments, and others to support the policies preferred by Beijing.
Part of that effort includes bringing Western journalists to China. Rohde in particular has written positively about China -- and negatively about Trump -- since his trip in 2011. In his 2011 column for Reuters, Rohde derided America while praising China.
President Trump's controversial "self-deportation" program, which pays unauthorized immigrants to leave the U.S., is on pace to account for more than 200,000 departures, according to internal data shared with Axios.
How is it "controversial" to pay illegal aliens to voluntarily leave the country? It's only controversial if you are devoted to the idea that all foreigners not only have a right to be present in America, but must be encouraged to exercise this non-existent right.
For the voting.
Why it matters: Launched last year alongside a multimillion-dollar ad campaign, the initiative is virtually the only carrot in an aggressive immigration crackdown that has been long on sticks.
Through July 16, the nearly $600 million program -- dubbed Project Homecoming by the Department of Homeland Security -- has helped about 132,000 people exit the U.S.
Roughly 70,000 more have signed up and are on track to leave, according to the data.
About half of the self-deportations have involved immigrants held in detention, under an effort that accelerated the departures and began when a DOGE staffer brought Project Homecoming into ICE facilities.
The big picture: The self-deportation program is a key part of the administration's push to remove 1 million unauthorized immigrants from the U.S. each year.
The idea was that unauthorized immigrants would be so fearful of being arrested and detained by ICE or Customs and Border Protection that they'd voluntarily leave the U.S., with the promise of free travel and a stipend of $1,000, paid once they had left.
The stipend has increased to $2,600 and was briefly $3,000 last Christmas.
Border czar Tom Homan said in May that encouraging self-deportations was "part of the plan from the very beginning."
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Zoom in: Project Homecoming started slowly, attracting about 24,000 immigrants in its first six months as staffers arranged deportees' travel documents and flights out of the U.S.
The White House then pressured DHS officials to move faster.
"The push was daily calls from the White House and weekly principal level calls [with Deputy White House Chief of Staff] Stephen Miller directly," one source said.
"They wanted like thousands pushed through on a daily basis, and we were putting through like dozens."
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Case managers for the self-deportation program are now in 40 ICE detention sites, and about half of its 200,000-plus cases have involved immigrants in detention.
People in detention opting to leave the U.S. through the initiative now spend an average of 17 days in detention detained compared the typical 50 days, according to ICE data. That's begun to free up bed space in some detention centers.
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"For the first time, someone walks in and goes, 'Hey, who here just wants to go home?' And everybody's like, 'I want to go home,'" one source said. "It's an immediate jump" in detainees seeking deportation.
By the numbers: Each self-deportation is costing the government about $2,500, plus the stipend paid to the deportee, DHS says. Removing an immigrant who doesn't volunteer for deportation costs about $18,245, the agency said.
The New York Times complains that the US is, get this, turning away foreigners just for having expired -- void -- visas.
You know, like the law says is supposed to happen!
ICE is detaining foreign citizens at airports with expired U.S. visas, including spouses of Americans, according to documents obtained by The New York Times and interviews with immigration lawyers. https://t.co/gHPgFnhc6r
The left is arguing against this note, claiming that aliens are in "legal limbo" so they're allowed to violate the US's immigration rules and ignore our visa requirements:
[No Note Needed] - not only is the article reporting facts, but the proposed note about "that is how visas work" misses the fact that many official avenues for immigration often leave aliens in immigration limbo with no legal status
Deep State Mafia Boss Anthony "Little Bones" Fauci Pleads the Fifth
—Disinformation Expert Ace
This is what I thought he would do.
But now I wonder if he has any legal right to invoke the Fifth.
He was pardoned for all crimes he committed for a ten (or eleven?) year period, 2014 to 2024. Therefore, speaking about his activities then does not incriminate him as he cannot be prosecuted. He could admit the broke every law in America, but that's not self-incrimination, because he can't be prosecuted for what he says.
He could be prosecuted for crimes since then, but not for crimes between 2014 - 2024.
When a court or Congress wants testimony from someone invoking the Fifth, they will grant immunity for that testimony, meaning it cannot be used in any other body in the future for purposes of punishing the testifier. Then testimony can be compelled, as there is no Fifth Amendment right just to keep a secret because you want to keep it a secret.
But Congress doesn't even have to immunize Fauci -- Biden's Magic Autopen already did.
So he should be compelled to testify, or be held physically in contempt until he agrees to talk. (I see now other people are talking about this.)
But I doubt the GOP has the balls to do this.
Update: Rand Paul wants to hold "Little Bones" Fauci in contempt:
Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
BREAKING: Sen Rand Paul says the committee scheduled a vote on holding Fauci in CONTEMPT after Fauci invoked the Fifth amendment over EIGHTY TIMES
Update: Elric the Blade points out that Fauci can say he is invoking his right not to incriminate himself for state crimes. His pardon only covers federal crimes.
He can also say that his pardon hasn't been accepted by a court as effective.
Meanwhile, Senators are roasting this criminal pig and mass murderer.
KanekoaTheGreat
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🚨Hawley GRILLS Fauci: You illegally used 8 federal employees to solicit $1,000,000 in cash prizes for yourself -- while Americans were dying from COVID-19 in the winter of 2020.
"You turned your staff into a full-time application machine."
"You used eight separate federal employees on federal time using federal resources to solicit cash awards."
"This is your chief of staff using federal email to pressure the agency's own ethics people so that you could get money, so that you could get rich. And it violated the law, didn't it, Dr. Fauci?"
"You cannot use federal resources, federal dollars, federal employees, federal offices, federal email, federal time to solicit cash awards, and you did all of it."
"The worst part is, thousands of people were dying while you were doing it. You were supposed to be the nation's doctor, and you were playing one on TV. But this is what you were doing with your time. Isn't that true?"
Fauci's answer, every time: "On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment."
@HawleyMO response: "Yeah, yeah, I can see why."
Catherine Herridge
@C__Herridge
FAUCI TAKES THE FIFTH TO @SenRandPaul QUESTIONS
-- @senrandpaul responded that he will have to consider the consequences "it is against the law"
FAUCI LAWYER REMOVED FOR DISRUPTING HEARING
SENATOR PAUL QUESTIONS:
- Did CIA Transfer Funds to NIH ?
- Was Fauci "read in" to Sensitive, Classified Programs called "Compartmented Intelligence"
- Knowledge of Wuhan Lab Gain-of-Function Research (made virus more infectious, dangerous)
- Research Monkey Pox
NOTE: The decision by Fauci to assert his Fifth Amendment rights likely opens the door to the viability of the Biden preemptive Pardon
NOTE2: According to Senator Paul, Fauci has about half dozen lawyers remaining.
CIA whistleblower indicated US intelligence community was more deeply involved in gain of function research than previously disclosed. 👇
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Senator Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) to Dr. Fauci:
"Who the F**! do you think you are?"
"...your 50 year career ends in total and complete disgrace"
"Will you apologize to the people you harmed through your actions, do you have the dignity to say you are sorry?"
Fauci: Asserts His Fifth Amendment right
At one point, members of the public and government employees stood. They say they were retaliated against for objecting to the COVID-19 vaccine
🚨Hawley GRILLS Fauci: You illegally used 8 federal employees to solicit $1,000,000 in cash prizes for yourself — while Americans were dying from COVID-19 in the winter of 2020.
"You turned your staff into a full-time application machine."
If you only watch ONE video from the Fauci hearing today, it should be this one...
Bernie Moreno: "It was about six years ago today that I decided I'm going to give up my businesses, sell them all, run for office, run for the United States Senate.
Catherine Herridge
@C__Herridge
FAUCI PARDON: NOT BULLETPROOF
On the Pardon: Before the hearing @SenRandPaul
a former senior Justice Department prosecutor told me there are three, viable legal strategies to challenge the preemptive Biden pardon.
But there is no easy path.
One strategy calls for charging Fauci with a crime, with the expectation he would file a motion with the court to dismiss based on the pardon. This could open the door to challenging the sweeping pardon's viability and years of litigation.
Another strategy involves Congress. Because Fauci has theoretically been preemptively pardoned against past and future criminal charges related to his NIH work, it can be argued that Fauci has no plausible claim to the 5th Amendment, the right against self-incrimination.
If Fauci takes the Fifth at Senator Paul's hearing (which he has) the committee could seek to compel Fauci's testimony. A finding of contempt could follow.
Finally, one of Fauci's closest associates has been criminally charged. With pressure and the right incentives he might be flipped and become a cooperating witness.
Dr. David Morens, who was a senior advisor to Fauci at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was indicted on multiple charges including conspiracy and obstruction, including destruction, alteration or falsification of federal records.
Along with allegations that personal email accounts were used to evade the Freedom of Information Act, this could be a powerful motivator.
From media reports: Dr. David Morens has pleaded not guilty to all five federal criminal counts.
NOTE: @SenRickScott
has just raised the Morens case. Fauci continues to take the Fifth.
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Perhaps surprisingly, both the New York Times and the Washington Post have now published articles on the Fauci diaries. Unsurprisingly, both are complete whitewashes. They sanitize his record and reduce the criticism to the suggestion that he may have been a little too narcissistic.
Neither outlet confronts the diaries' central revelation, which is that Fauci repeatedly said one thing in private and another in public. That applies to the possibility of a laboratory origin, the supposed role of the Wuhan seafood market, the Wuhan lab's extraordinarily dangerous gain-of-function research, the infection fatality rate, dissenting scientists such as Jay Bhattacharya, and much more.
This was their chance to admit that they were wrong to trust Fauci, that he was a charlatan, and that they had failed their readers by acting as establishment propaganda outlets rather than journalists. They could even have blamed Fauci and washed their own hands of the entire scandal.
But they cannot bring themselves to do even that.
Update: Rand Paul thinks that Fauci's destruction of official records is prosecutable. I guess maybe this took place after the period of his super-pardon.
Catherine Herridge
@C__Herridge
PATH FORWARD FAUCI: @SenRandPaul
allegations Fauci authorized or directed the destruction of federal records, a federal crime.
Senator Paul "One more time to comply with the law"
- Vote next week on contempt
- viability Biden preemptive pardon
- Fauci leaves hearing, no comment, appeared deflated
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This week, PJ Media published an article about the DSA and its clearly-stated plans for revolutionary overthrow of American institutions. The article is typical of those like it. It highlights some of the more radical attitudes and ambitions that are mainstream in the DSA and calls it out for what it is - that is, mostly old-school communism with some contemporary post-modern progressive flair. It also laments the state of the youth and speculates as to the appetite for this kind of revolutionary communism in American popular politics.
As is normal for these kinds of articles, the author calls out how the new resurgence of revolutionary ideology on the Left is not well-loved by various older/traditional players on the Left. Many of the traditional hatchet-men and current marginalized politicians on the Left are worried, as they well should be:
Give credit to more sensible Democrats like Sen. John Fetterman and old Clinton hand James Carville who see the DSA slipping into the DNC like a skinsuit, and recognize the danger...
The danger isn't hard to recognize. It has a great big red flashing arrow reading "DANGER" pointing right at it. What is astounding is that many seem to be surprised by it.
How can men like Carville - or even those on the right (pseudo or otherwise) - be surprised by these developments? The PJ Media article touches on it, albeit as a simple lament:
The advantage we hold -- at least for now -- over the DSA, is that they have spokesweasels like Romer going to TV, actually trying to sell a radical agenda wholesale instead of piecemeal. Today's voters won't have it, but what about tomorrow's voters, the ones who were never taught American history or civics?
This is why those generations are not taught anything recognizable as history or civics. This was the point. This is why the Left did their Gramscian March. The March has been grinding on for decades, designed to bring us to where we are now.
The core issue - and it's one that has been obvious for at least a decade, even for those only paying casual attention - is that the March has to end eventually. If they spend decades subverting, capturing and refocusing institutions, they must take their gains at some point. The March depends on a stage of final conversion. In that final stage, they collect their winnings and use them to formally do away with the old system and replace it with the new one. Once most means of effective opposition are destroyed, they must formalize what they built. The Long March must be followed by the Rapid Conversion.
The sticking point is the question of when. Not everyone in the coalition will be on board at the same time and universally agree that the time to attempt Conversion has come. The last time it seemed to come up in earnest was under Obama, and the non-Conversionists won that round. The March continued, albeit a bit a faster. The drive to Conversion was accelerated, but Conversion was not attempted. There is a generational issue at play, as well, in that the people to whom they've promised Conversion will eventually demand it. When that time comes, the Marchers have to deliver and become Conversionists or they will be destroyed by the Conversionists they so carefully bred. The conflict over Conversion must occur because first a plurality and then possibly an outright majority will demand it if the March was successful. It will be brutal and violent and filled with infighting, but it will have to happen no matter what. It's the logical end state of the March.
Carville and those like him believe that the Conversion should for now remain where it has always been: in the future. Those in this camp believe that the March is not yet done, there is not yet enough control to pursue Conversion, and that attempting it now is high-risk and may result in defeat and it is reckless for the entitled Party youngsters to conflate their privileged status with actual power when the Marchers are still the rightful shot-callers. The DSA and those like them believe that those like Carville are fuddy-duddy Boomers who don't know what time it is, that Conversion needs to happen now or it will fail because the March is finished and is increasingly subject to outsider threats by regressive sub-human wreckers - and besides, they're owed it. The Marchers promised Conversion, and it's time to deliver - or else.
I don't know which camp is correct, but it was obvious that they had to reach this point. The Marchers spent decades cultivating radical, amoral (at best) monster babies and their efforts brought stupendous success. They got an entire generation of monster babies, and it was a mega-generation at that. The Millennials are a radical generation, lovingly crafted by the Marchers to be aggressively progressive - and it worked. The Marchers developed them and promised them victory. Now that they're middle-aged, the Millennials are moving into positions of real power and as they move up, they want to realize what they were promised - and they have the extra motivation of an aggressive push from below by their even more radical (if numerically smaller and much less monolithic) younger cohorts.
The March is not yet quite in the rearview mirror, but it is in its endgame. Conversion will be attempted, and the only remaining open questions are "when" and "will it work?" I don't know, but I think Carville is whistling past the graveyard and knows it. He and his kind spent decades promising Conversion - and their monster babies are getting tired of waiting.
Good morning kids. Lots of news to unpack this morning, especially the thoroughly unsurprising yet utterly disgusting revelations about Anthony Fauci courtesy of his little red book, that is his diary. It is not hyperbole to state that he has the blood of tens if not hundreds of thousands of people on his hands because of his direct actions in creating the COVID-19 virus for the Red Chinese and then unleashing it on the world in a lab that was in whole or in part funded by our taxpayer dollars. This horrid bastard will for sure be roasting in Hell one day, but likely will be untouched by our justice system, such as it is.
As it turns out, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is good for something after all.
Just to recap, Paul obtained and released more than 1,100 pages of the private diaries Fauci kept between 2019 and 2022 as part of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee’s investigation into the federal government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. You've probably seen by now that they contained a lot of Fauci fawning over himself and tracking his own celebrity, awards, and media coverage, as well as him saying some not so nice things about his critics.. . Then-Sen. Rubio was quite critical of many of Fauci's statements back then, particularly saying that there was no need for people to go around wearing masks. He also accused Fauci of distorting the percentage of the population that would require vaccinations to reach herd immunity. Fauci's response? He said he was being a "real a*****e."
Speaking of Marco Rubio, Democrat election thievery as well as Democrat-fomented assassination attempts and political terrrorism notwithstanding, I think Marco Rubio stands a pretty good chance at becoming POTUS if not in this go round then perhaps 2032 or afterwards. His tenure as Secretary of State has been outstanding, the situation in Iran notwithstanding, although that situation really is on President Trump, and it is his to resolve despite the fact that he's dealing with dark age savages intent on unleashing armageddon on the world as the precursor to total Islamic conquest of the planet,
The truth is it's a complicated process. This isn't Venezuela. We likely won't have a clean and tidy(-ish) ending to the regime. You can't just take out one guy, neutralize his cronies, cut off their revenue stream, and start over with Marco Rubio in charge. The Cuban regime is older, more decentralized, and designed to withstand such moves. The power lies within the Communist Party, the military’s economic empire (GAESA), and a deep security apparatus.
There's also the media problem. The number of MSM fake news stories from anonymous sources about Cuba is exhausting, and it drives me insane how many prominent people report on them or share them as if they are fact. For example, for a while, there was this idea that the Trump administration's goal for liberating Cuba was the end of this year. It was fun to buy into, and I didn't find it all that outlandish pre-Iran, but Rubio put a stop to that kind of talk last week when speaking to the press.
Well, as the President himself is wont to say, we'll just have to wait and see. Look how far we've come from "Little Marco" to perhaps being his most trusted and effective ally.
Both men were convicted on charges stemming from clashes that Iranian authorities say resulted in the deaths of four security officers. Human rights groups say the men were sentenced after proceedings marred by allegations of torture, forced confessions, and closed-door trials.
The executions stem from the nationwide uprising that began in late December after a currency collapse, soaring inflation, and worsening living conditions sparked protests across Iran. Iranian regime forces responded with a sweeping crackdown that included internet shutdowns, mass arrests, and the widespread use of lethal force. . . Videos shared by Iran International showed residents gathering overnight in hopes of stopping the executions before authorities dispersed the crowd.
We've long hoped and prayed that something might ignite the spark that at long last lets the Iranian people take to the streets and directly take on the regime, or gives those within the security services the ability to turn on their overlords and join the people.
At this point, it's a pipe dream but that's what the Ceaucescus thought as they were hoisted up on a lamp post not all that long ago.
You’d think socialism’s 100-plus-year record of failure would be enough to dissuade people from embracing tenets that led to the horrors of Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, etc. But hope springs eternal, apparently.
(And, just for the record, despite what Bernie Sanders says, the Nordic countries are not socialist. Denmark, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Norway come in seventh, eighth, 10th, and 11th, respectively, in the Heritage Foundation’s Index of Economic Freedom. Switzerland comes in second place. The U.S. ranks 22nd.)
What’s even more unfathomable is why Democrats have such a positive view of the DSA when they reject many of its central positions.
CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
The Court has had 9 seats since 1869, and every serious attempt to alter that number has been understood as an effort to capture the Court for political ends Pete Buttigieg Wants to Pack Supreme Court With 13 Justices (and pack Chasten's fudge - jjs)
President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu concluded a White House meeting Tuesday with both governments describing the talks as “positive and productive” and reaffirming their shared commitment to preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, as the president weighs whether to continue negotiations with Tehran or authorize additional military action. Netanyahu, Trump Meeting in D.C. ‘Positive, Productive’ — Reaffirmed Iran Nuclear Red Line
Radio Free Europe (RFE) reported on Sunday that the crackdown on Muslim attire has been effective. One Tajik Muslim interviewed by the outlet explained that he was arrested, fined about $18, and held for three days because he had a long beard – and he is now required to send weekly selfies to the police, to prove that he remains clean-shaven. Tajikistan Punishing Citizens for ‘Alien’ Islamic Headscarves and Beards
The change is the latest in a series of moves by the Trump administration to remove the names and images of officials it views as having failed or worked against the country’s intelligence and defense institutions, and it comes amid renewed scrutiny of Clapper’s own record atop the intelligence community. Pentagon Strips James Clapper’s Name From DIA Auditorium(at least we still get to call syphillis the Clap - jjs)
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
When it comes to political comedy or satire, the left only tolerates it from their side. As soon as someone makes a joke they don’t like, they bring out the cancel culture mob. This phenomenon is easily observable when the leftist media tries to cover President Donald Trump, which is what Ali Velshi did on Monday’s episode of The 11th Hour on MS NOW when he and Vox correspondent Zack Beauchamp took issue with Trump joking about running for president a fourth time at his recent rallies and the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. ‘It's a Joke, But It's Not a Joke’: MS Nsdap Claims Trump Wants 2028 Run
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Lux Claridge was yanked out of a chair by three police officers and carried out of the Emporia City Commission meeting on July 22 for seemingly disobeying the mayor’s orders regarding clapping against the controversial Flint Hills Digital Campus data center proposed in Emporia, Kansas, the Emporia Police said. Kansas high school teacher dragged out, arrested for clapping at city meeting over proposed data centers
The Federal Communications Commission announced the restrictions, extending a push that has already targeted foreign-made drones and wireless routers. The new rule covers mobile robots, including humanoid and quadruped models, along with power inverters used to connect solar energy systems to the electric grid, equipment increasingly common as green energy mandates spread across the country. Trump Administration Blocks Imports of Advanced Robots, Solar Power Inverters Over China Security Fears
The survey underscores broad public backing for election integrity measures. These findings make congressional Democrat obstruction of the SAVE America Act in Congress even less tenable, considering that a clear majority of the party’s supporters back election integrity measures, including voter ID. This is likely to reinforce the President’s argument that congressional Democrats only oppose the Act because it would hurt their chances of getting elected via fraud. Another Poll Reveals Overwhelming Public Support for the SAVE America Act.
In a unanimous ruling, a three-judge panel for the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals shot down Democrats’ lawfare against Trump’s March elections order. That directive, as summarized by the court, “directs the Department of Homeland Security, the United States Postal Service, and other agencies to begin developing new rules and procedures for mail voting in the upcoming midterm and future elections.” D.C. Circuit Court Hands Trump Win In Battle Over Mail-In Voting Order
Circuit Judges Patricia Millett, Robert Wilkins, and Gregory Katsas upheld U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols' refusal to issue a preliminary injunction. The executive order isn't self-executing, and the injuries claimed by the plaintiffs depended on agency decisions that hadn't been made. D.C. Circuit Tells Democrats They Sued Trump’s Voting Order Too Soon
Vance remembered Graham as a man who could disagree without being disagreeable, recalling how Graham quietly backed a rail bill Vance had supported as a senator even though the issue meant little to him personally. Vance also credited Graham with helping save Justice Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination during the bruising 2018 confirmation fight. 'He Never Quit.' Trump Honors Lindsey Graham’s Relentless American Spirit at D.C. Funeral.
Martin, who has found himself increasingly isolated as he worries about losing his job, threw a phone at a junior aide’s desk earlier this month in frustration, sparking a human resources complaint, according to a report by the New York Times. Report: Democrats Frustrated with Embattled DNC Chair
The job of a think tank is to generate the ideas that politicians implement in office. If politics were the movie industry, those we elect would be the stars on the big screen; think tanks help write the script. What is a Think Tank?
Spain will hold new elections next year, expected to occur no later than August 22, 2027. Although the Spanish conservative People’s Party obtained the most amount of seats in the August 2023 elections, Sánchez and the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) managed to cling to power by securing alliances with minority leftist parties — allowing PSOE to secure enough votes for Sánchez’s current four year term. Spain: 60% Reject Current Socialist Government While 30% Find It ‘Disastrous’
Last month, the High Court approved an injunction brought forward by Oxfordshire Council which prevented the flags of England and Britain from being displayed on public infrastructure. Back in March, a leaked draft of the British government’s social cohesion policy suggested the British, English, and Scottish flags could be “tools of hate.” UK Govt Minister Calls for Removal of ‘Unsettling, Intimidating’ British Flags.
The truth is it's a complicated process. This isn't Venezuela. We likely won't have a clean and tidy(-ish) ending to the regime. You can't just take out one guy, neutralize his cronies, cut off their revenue stream, and start over with Marco Rubio in charge. The Cuban regime is older, more decentralized, and designed to withstand such moves. The power lies within the Communist Party, the military’s economic empire (GAESA), and a deep security apparatus. Cuba Falling: A Lot Happened Last Week. Let's Talk About It.
The start of the review could spell a radical alteration in the structure of NATO, including reduced U.S. military presence in Europe. “It’s a review that some countries will fail, and others will pass with flying colors,” Hegseth warned at the time. U.S. Launches Comprehensive Review of Military Presence in Europe.
Peptides are short chains of amino acids that help regulate metabolism, growth and tissue repair, according to the Cleveland Clinic. Some, including insulin and GLP-1 weight loss drugs, are already FDA approved, while others have remained in regulatory limbo even as demand exploded among patients seeking help with weight loss, muscle building, chronic disease and performance. FDA Panel Backs Wider Access to Six Peptide Therapies, Citing Grey Market Concerns
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
For starters, he insisted time and again that the “lab leak hypothesis” was a wacky conspiracy theory, that the virus had jumped naturally from animals to humans, presumably at the “wet market” in Wuhan, China.Yet the diaries reveal that he knew early on that it had not come from the wet market, and was confronted with scientists he’d selected who argued with strong evidence that “lab leak” was the truth — and that the bug was likely bio-engineered in the Wuhan Institute Virology. Anthony Fauci’s own diary proves what a despicable villain he truly is
Well, that didn't age well. The nation's most famous public health official — at least, most famous, according to himself — was having a private meltdown over then-Sen. Rubio's challenges. He literally sounds like a 12-year-old girl writing about how a mean girl named Jennifer called her names at school because she did a lame science fair project or something. Anthony Fauci Just Handed Marco Rubio One Heck of a Campaign Ad
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
The black hole itself is estimated to have a mass about a million times that of the Sun, placing it in the middle range of sizes between stellar-mass black holes, formed when a star dies, and super-massive black holes, found in the center of galaxies and formed by the swallowing of massive amounts of the galaxy’s material. Astronomers discover the first mid-sized black hole wandering outside of a galaxy
Engineers are presently working to stop the spin. If they succeed, they will upload new software to accommodate operations using one reaction wheel (the equivalent of a gyroscope) and the issues with the cold gas thruster system. At that point Katalyst and NASA engineers will access whether Link’s mission to save Gehrels-Swift can go forward. Problems with Katalyst’s Link rescue spacecraft
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
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Podcast: CBD and Sefton discuss the Berlin attack, Iran...Again! Sefton's mini Odyssey review, Data Republican's blockbuster reveal about the DNC, and more!
Forgotten 80s Mystery Click She's totally committed to major independence
She's a lady through and through
She gives them quite a battle, all that they can handle
She'll bruise some, she'll hurt some too
Podcast: Illegals registered and voted in NJ! Leftist violence is baked into the Democrat cake, Iran's capabilities are being degraded, Londonistan? And...come on SC...no senate dynasties!
FDA is providing an update regarding the sample of lettuce supplied by Taylor Farms de Mexico which was reported positive on July 18, 2026. Due to the complexity in detection of Cyclospora, FDA laboratory experts re-reviewed the sample results and have concluded that the finding does not represent true amplification and should be considered a false positive. Information about the sample has been removed from the July 18, 2026, update below. FDA has notified Taylor Farms and continues working with the firm to ensure product implicated in this outbreak has been removed from the market. FDA and state partners continue to collect and analyze product samples. As of July 19, 2026, there are no confirmed positive sample results for product testing for Cyclospora.
Podcast: Trump Slaps Mullin down; he wants the auto stops to continue, we need employment enforcement at our big corporations, The gerontocracy in the Senate, the Iranian junta is true to form, but Trump responds forcefully, and more!
Forgotten 80s Mystery Click: Northern Lights Division
Our topic today is music That's right, like
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You're making me look bad
You're such a Hosehead
CNBC ranks Tennessee as dead last in its “Worst States to Live” analysis. The specific reason is that cross-dressing men in TN are denied access to children and women’s private spaces. Texas finished 49th. The “worst” states were all red states. [Buck]
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